C-House
Who knew Top Chef Master winner Marcus Samuelsson had a Chicago restaurant? Despite Samuelsson's unattractive personality on the show, he won for a reason. I was debating between his restaurant, C-House, or Top Chef Season 4 winner Stephanie Izard's restaurant, Girl & the Goat, for my birthday festivities. But Girl & the Goat is in a super random and far location and getting 8 people on a 30 minute bus ride is undesirable. So I went with C-House.
Lately I've been ordering one or two appetizers and a side dish for my meal. My obsession with tapas is carrying over into non-tapas restaurants. I had a lamb chop appetizer with kale, tomatoes and two potatoes in lamb jus and a side of goat cheese and pork sausage macaroni and cheese. Lamb was perfectly cooked and the kale was spicy and not in texture, the way some leafy greens are. Macaroni and cheese with goat cheese, why have I not had this before? I love traditional mac & cheese but this goat cheese was a welcome addition to the cheddar. Pork sausage was good but super spicy.
I also had a bite of the yellow tail tacos. Basically sushi in a crunchy tortilla. Baller. However, my one complaint about nearly everything I tried (minus the pork sausage and kale): bland. Bland, bland, lacking salt bland. I had to add salt to everything.
C-House
Completely randomly came across your blog and really enjoy it! We ate at C-house this past weekend on our trip to Chicago, and couldn't agree more with the lack of salt but slamming tuna tacos. We also ate at Graham Elliot's restaurant the next evening. Not sure if you live in Chicago or if it was a visit, but if you are back anytime soon, you MUST go! It was a bit pricey, but every bite was a mind explosion! Up there as one of my top food experiences.
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